- 1803 - Marbury v. Madison : repealed Judiciary Act & voided act of Congress for one of the first times with the use of judiciary review
- 1810 - Flethcher v. Peck : land grant = a valid contract that couldn't be repealed
- 1819 - Dartmouth College v. Woodward : federal review of state court decisions = constitutional
- 1819 - McCulloch v. Maryland : states couldn't tax US Bank
- 1823 - Johnson v. McIntosh : only federal government could buy/take tribal land
- 1824 - Gibbons v. Ogden : Congress got greater power in regulating interstate commerce
- 1832 - Worchester v. Georgia : only federal government could give US citizens access to Cherokee country
- 1837 - Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge : states had right to amend contracts for well-being of community --> reflected Jacksonian democratic ideal of expanding economic opportunity
- 1842 - Commonwealth v. Hunt : unions + strikes = legal
- 1842 - Prigg v. Pennsylvania : state enforcement of 1793 fugitive slave return law was not necessary
- 1857 - Dred Scott v. Sandford : blacks weren't citizens so they couldn't sue, nor did they have any rights under the Constitution, & Missouri Compromise = unconsitutional --> Congress had no authority to pass laws depriving slave property in territories
- 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson : "separate but equal" - legalized segregation in schools
- (not supreme court) 1925 Scopes Monkey trial : isolated/excluded fundamentalists
- 1931 Scottsboro case : 9 black teenagers arrested for falsely-accused rape, & along w/ help of NAACP they were eventually able to gain freedom
- 1944 Korematsu v. U.S. : allowed Japanese internment
- 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka : called out for desegregation in schools & overruled Plessy v. Ferguson decision
- 1973 Roe v. Wade : allowed abortion during the 1st trimester of pregnancy
- 1962 Baker v. Carr : reapportioned electoral districts so that all citizens' votes have equal weight, strengthening voting power of ethnic groups in cities
- 1978 Bakke v. Board of Regents of California : upheld principle of affirmative action
- 1974 United States v. Richard M. Nixon : after Watergate scandal, Nixon was ordered to relinquish tapes claiming he was innocent & then influenced impeachment, although Nixon resigned instead
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